IIT Kanpur, Kotak launch ‘School of Sustainability’

The Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IIT-K) and the Kotak Mahindra Bank Limited today announced the launch of Kotak School of Sustainability – India’s first fully integrated school of sustainability at IIT Kanpur.

This initiative has been taken with the thought that global warming poses a serious threat to our existence, manifesting in untimely natural calamities, pollution, and biodiversity loss. “Research indicates irreversible ‘Tipping Points’ with rapid, harmful climatic changes. Realising this is an imminent existential crisis and that anthropogenic activities need to be environmentally sustainable; world leaders have been discussing in COP (Conference of Parties) meetings to come up with policies and actions that can lead to a sustainable future. The United Nations (UN’s) seventeen sustainable development goals address this challenge, crucial in densely populated countries like India. Urgent climate actions are needed to mitigate, adapt, and build resilience,” the official notice stated.

With this in mind, IIT Kanpur and KMBL have come together to establish India’s first integrated School of Sustainability. KMBL is funding IITK through its CSR programme to establish Kotak School of Sustainability with a vision to promote pedigree education, research, and outreach.

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The School will bring together departments and centres of excellence at IITK with an aim to provide an enabling environment for collaborative research across multiple facets of sustainability. Kotak School of Sustainability will have dedicated centres of excellence covering different aspects of sustainability such as clean energy, environment, ecology, circular economy, climate finance, sustainable societies and policy.

It will be led by tenured professors and leading industry experts from across the globe. Housed in a green building, the school is placed to run both undergraduate and postgraduate academic and skill-building programmes in different themes of sustainability.

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